Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 páginas |
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... England's done ; whereby it was generally conceived that after the sovereigns had reigned , which had the letters of that word HEMPE ( which were Henry , Edward , Mary , Philip , Elizabeth ) , England should come to utter confusion ...
... England's done ; whereby it was generally conceived that after the sovereigns had reigned , which had the letters of that word HEMPE ( which were Henry , Edward , Mary , Philip , Elizabeth ) , England should come to utter confusion ...
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... England , conjures him to call on her . " A wilful error , " she says , " is maintained against justice and truth to oppose my right . Why not come immediately ? " But , instead of going , E. J. W. simply inserts the word SILENCE ! in ...
... England , conjures him to call on her . " A wilful error , " she says , " is maintained against justice and truth to oppose my right . Why not come immediately ? " But , instead of going , E. J. W. simply inserts the word SILENCE ! in ...
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... ( England , good country , bad people ) . On the other hand , Misson , in his " Travels " ( 1719 ) , says , “ I cannot imagine what could occasion the notion I have frequently observed in France that the English were treach- erous . It is ...
... ( England , good country , bad people ) . On the other hand , Misson , in his " Travels " ( 1719 ) , says , “ I cannot imagine what could occasion the notion I have frequently observed in France that the English were treach- erous . It is ...
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... England , and should make it their chief boast , for many generations to come , that they are sprung from the same race with Bacon and Shake- speare and Newton . Considering their numbers , indeed , and the favorable circumstances in ...
... England , and should make it their chief boast , for many generations to come , that they are sprung from the same race with Bacon and Shake- speare and Newton . Considering their numbers , indeed , and the favorable circumstances in ...
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... England Tragedies . Baker's Dozen . Thirteen . The phrase is often used colloquially for good measure running over . In medieval times bakers were kept rigidly under the eye of the law , their vocation being one on which the public ...
... England Tragedies . Baker's Dozen . Thirteen . The phrase is often used colloquially for good measure running over . In medieval times bakers were kept rigidly under the eye of the law , their vocation being one on which the public ...
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acrostic admiration advertisements Æsop American anagram ancient appeared asked Ben Jonson bouts-rimés Cæsar called century Charles common cried curious dead death Diogenes Laertius doth Duke Echo England English epigram epitaph essay expression eyes famous father fool France French gentleman give Goethe Greek hand hath head heart heaven Henry honor Horace Walpole horse Hudibras humor John Julius Cæsar king known lady language Latin letter lines literary literature live London Lord Lord Byron meaning mind modern Molière never Notes and Queries once origin person phrase play Plutarch poem poet political Pope popular proverb Publius Syrus quoted replied says sense Shakespeare slang soul speech stanza story tell term thee things thou thought tion told turn verse Voltaire wife word write wrote young
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Página 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Página 230 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Página 125 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 258 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 713 - Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Página 739 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Página 741 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.